Who Put Their Capitalism in My Slavery?

Nelson, Scott Reynolds

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“…En la ausencia de élites regionales antagónicas, por ejemplo, ¿cómo vamos a darle sentido a la antiesclavitud o a las causas primigenias de la Guerra Civil?, ¿cómo fue que un imperio esclavista, confiable, productivo e implacable fue derrotado, por quién, y por qué?, ¿la guerra en realidad marcó el triunfo de un capitalismo industrial sobre un 26 Véanse Beckert (2014), Johnson (2013), Baptist (2014), Beckert y Rockman (2016), Karp (2016), Schermerhorn (2015) y Rosenthal (2018). Para más críticas en esta línea, véanse McCurry (2017), Oakes (2016), Reynolds Nelson (2015) y Mathisen (2018).…”

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The United States As A Developing Nation: Revisiting The Peculiarities Of American History*

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Maggor

2019

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It has recently been suggested that the economic departure of the United States after the Civil War marked a ‘Second Great Divergence’. Compared to the ‘First’, the rise of Britain during the Industrial Revolution, this Second Great Divergence is curiously little understood: because the United States remains the template for modernization narratives, its trajectory is more easily accepted as preordained than interrogated as an unlikely historical outcome. But why should development have been problematic everywhere but the United States? This Viewpoint argues that a robust explanation for the United States's rise is lacking: it can neither be found in an economic history literature focused on factor endowments nor in internalist Americanist historiography, which often reproduces overdetermined accounts of modernization inspired by Max Weber. The most promising avenue of inquiry, we argue, lies in asking how American political institutions configured what should properly be called an American developmental state. Such a perspective opens up a broad comparative research agenda that provincializes the United States from the perspective of development experiences elsewhere.

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The United States As A Developing Nation: Revisiting The Peculiarities Of American History*

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Maggor

2019

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Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation

Parron

2022

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Slavery, Capitalism, and the Problem of Misprision

Coclanis¹

2018

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One of the most interesting scholarly developments in historical circles over the course of the last few years has been the unanticipated rise of the field known as the “new history of American capitalism.” Although most devotees of this new field are not formally trained in economics – indeed, some demonstrate little familiarity with the standard methods informing the discipline – the rise of the field on balance has been salutary for the traditional field to which it is most closely related: economic history. For decades economic history qua field had been shrinking, particularly in history departments, but also in departments of economics, as historians jumped on the cultural bandwagon or set sail with Atlantic history, and economists moved toward theory, models, and abstraction and away from messy empirics and fussy data, especially from the deep recesses of the past (often defined as anything prior to the last quarter). And so, academic scribblers – including this one, alas – anticipating the demise of economic history, were busy penning ex ante epitaphs and memorials to the field, as the remaining practitioners became grayer and longer in the tooth.

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Who Put Their Capitalism in My Slavery?

Cited by 20 publications

References 15 publications

The United States As A Developing Nation: Revisiting The Peculiarities Of American History*

The United States As A Developing Nation: Revisiting The Peculiarities Of American History*

Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation

Slavery, Capitalism, and the Problem of Misprision

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